Jack Teegarden,
Woodcarver
Experience woodcarving. Hands-on
instruction, relaxed, well-prepared course with workbook manual you take
home. Learn how to lay out a pattern, transfer it to wood, and carve
wood to produce a duck decoy you will be proud to display. Jack Teegarden
creates in a style that has the look and essence of historic decoys.
The beauty of wood grain shows through soft colors, holding that romance
of great times.
Location: The
schools are held in a workshop and log cabin in rural Atlanta, Michigan.
This is in the north woods of Michigan, an area of mixed hardwoods and
pines, 220 miles north of Detroit. Commercial air services have commuter
links to Alpena, 45 minutes away, or Traverse City, 2 hours away.
Lansing and Saginaw airports are other air travel alternatives and if you
are a private pilot, Atlanta and Hillman have small airports with paved
runways. Garland Resort in Lewiston takes private jets and twin engine
business aircraft.
If you have a spouse or friend along while
taking your carving class, the area offers golf, antique shops, casinos,
campgrounds, hiking trails, and lighthouses to visit, all with easy day-trip
distances. There are inland fishing resorts and salmon fishing charter
boats on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. The AuSable River and other
prime trout streams are nearby. There are no lodging accommodations
at the school, but Jack can recommend area lodging alternatives from elegant
to inexpensive, if he knows your wishes and requirements.
2004 marks 25th Anniversary of Jack Teegarden
professional folk artist. Before coming to Atlanta, his first studio
was in village of Sherman on M-37 south of Traverse City, Michigan.
His studio business is simple, (1) he does
it and (2) teaches it.
Jack’s carvings and folk art pieces can
be found in private collections in Europe, Canada, Africa, South America
as well as across the USA. He has participated in art shows from
the University of Chicago’s venerated 57th St. Art Show to the classic
vacation-land art shows of northern Michigan. He has judged wildlife art
competitions from the Great Lakes Wildlife Art Festival to the Michigan
Duck Stamp Contest. He has written regular newspaper and magazine
columns on Michigan's logging heritage and folk art crafts.
Over 2,000 students have taken his courses,
from Alaska to Florida, Ontario to Texas and California.
Jack studied at the University of Dayton,
holds a B.S. Degree from Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, and did graduate
studies at Purdue University. He had a two decade professional career with
the Boy Scouts of America. He has lectured on traditional North American
outdoor programs and/or folk aft crafts at Michigan State University, Purdue
University, Central Michigan University, Delta College and North Central
Michigan College.
The name Teegarden has several spellings.
Other spellings are: Tegarden, Teagarden and Teegardin, The Civil War was
divisive. Union sympathizers retained Tee-, while Confederacy minded distanced
themselves with the Tea-. The late New Orleans jazz trombonist, Jack
Teagarden, numbered himself with the southern clan.
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